{"conversationCode":"022-018","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-018","startDateTime":"1972-03-24T19:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-24T19:06:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:05 PM","endDate":"24-Mar-1972","endTime":"2:06 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;","description":"On March 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 2:05 pm to 2:06 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-018 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 22-18\n\nDate: March 24, 1972\nTime: 2:05 pm - 2:06 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.\n\n[See Conversation No. 326-20]\n\n     The President’s press conference\n          -Ziegler’s meeting with Frank Cormier and Helen A. Thomas\n               -United Press International [UPI]\n               -Wire services\n               -Order of questions","filename":["022-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:53:06","tapeEnd":"00:53:37","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ziegler, Ronald L."],"prevCode":"022-017","nextCode":"022-019","transcript":[{"start":0.07,"end":1.83,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":3.21,"end":3.45,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":4.11,"end":6.11,"text":"Maybe five minutes before."},{"start":8.07,"end":10.52,"text":"You should tell Cormier and is Thomas here today?"},{"start":12.46,"end":13.4,"text":"I haven't seen her today."},{"start":13.62,"end":15.79,"text":"Well, whoever is the UPI fellow."},{"start":15.87,"end":16.09,"text":"Right."},{"start":16.35,"end":21.15,"text":"That I'll call on Cormier first and then who do you want?"},{"start":21.25,"end":23.45,"text":"I think I ought to hit the two wire services first."},{"start":23.57,"end":23.7,"text":"Right."},{"start":23.71,"end":24,"text":"Okay."},{"start":24.02,"end":26.54,"text":"Cormier first and then Thomas second."},{"start":27.1,"end":29.36,"text":"And if there's a change in that, I'll tell you before you go on."},{"start":29.38,"end":29.9,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler coordinate the sequence of questioning for an upcoming press conference. They finalize a strategy to prioritize the wire services, specifically directing that Frank Cormier of the Associated Press and the representative from United Press International be called upon first and second, respectively. Ziegler is tasked with relaying this order to the reporters and notifying the President of any necessary adjustments prior to the event.","topics":["Presidential press conference","Ronald Ziegler","White House press corps","Media relations","Wire services"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:18:43.583Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-press-conference","ronald-ziegler","white-house-press-corps","media-relations","wire-services"],"audioDurationSec":32,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-018.mp3","bytes":761729,"durationSec":31.66,"bitrate":192457,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}